Final Fantasy XIII

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  1. 123456
    Mar 10, 2016
    5
    Picked this up on Steam Sale.

    15 hours in and the story is a strange mix of confusing and blindingly obvious to the player but not the characters. For some reason the characters feel the need to react with a gasp and stare down the camera lens rather than just say "What do you mean?" or "Tell me what you know!" The characters are unnecessarily childish, even the weird old guy who    Picked this up on Steam Sale.

    15 hours in and the story is a strange mix of confusing and blindingly obvious to the player but not the characters. For some reason the characters feel the need to react with a gasp and stare down the camera lens rather than just say "What do you mean?" or "Tell me what you know!"

    The characters are unnecessarily childish, even the weird old guy who happily goes along with it all. Your girlfriend tells you she is breaking up with you without giving a reason. Do you ask why, or fall down on your hands and knees and punch the floor hopelessly? Their outfits never change either, during flashbacks or otherwise, which I found particularly irritating given the game's focus on aesthetics.

    There is no open world, just long corridors. The locations may have looked good in 2010 but they are very repetitive now (this is perhaps a harsh criticism due to the game's age). The whole game thus far has been a series of paths with a few battles and cutscenes on the way to a boss fight. You can't get lost.

    The battles themselves bounce between challenging, tedious, fun, and flat out awesome. You only control one character, and control is a loose term - more of a suggestion of what that character does. The fights are much quicker, which can be fun, and swapping paradigms, or stances - like tank, dps, healer, buffer, debuffer - can be quite fun. However, for 99% of the game so far you only have 2 out of 3 character slots filled as you switch between pairs of characters, sometimes leaving you with a tank and a healer to try and kill an enemy with a large HP pool. Not impossible, but not necessary either. Having Lightning in your team makes things much more fun however, and the stagger system combined with the paradigms can make for some interesting gameplay. 75% of battles though can just be won by mashing one button, but that is just simplifying the repetitive actions from previous FF games of selecting the most effective attack for most of the trash/grind battles.

    Not great at all, but I will try and finish it.    … Expand
  2. MeritCoba
    Apr 12, 2016
    5
    There are few games that make me so sit on the fence as Final Fantasy 13(FF13 for short). On the one hand there are the splendid graphics which bring the characters to life and those are given depth by their own back story that is set against the overall story line. On the other hand is much of the background is simply overdone: everyone has a chip on his or her shoulder, an axe to grindThere are few games that make me so sit on the fence as Final Fantasy 13(FF13 for short). On the one hand there are the splendid graphics which bring the characters to life and those are given depth by their own back story that is set against the overall story line. On the other hand is much of the background is simply overdone: everyone has a chip on his or her shoulder, an axe to grind and a bone to pick. In addition the game play is aggravating by the continuous interruption with cut scenes and the story is a confused mess.

    The best way to explain the game play is to imagine that it is like a movie inter spaced with fights. It is almost choice free too.There is just one path to follow, although sometimes you get to pick an alternative route to get around a group of enemies or use it to attack them from behind. There is nothing else to choose from in the dialog or the story line. It is all given and triggered at various points. You won't be selecting from dialog options, selecting quests, support a specific side over another or even get to choose what to do first.

    The only choices in the game are related to the fights. There is the phase out side of combat, which is to prepare characters for battle by upgrading their equipment, assigning points to improve them and arranging battle tactics. This phase is as important, or even more so, than the tactics used in the fights.

    The battles themselves are all about pressing buttons to execute preconfigured and auto generated stratagems as quickly as possible. The clock is relentless and can only be set to slow, which isn't that much slower than normal. You get rewarded for speed which increases the pressure to yank away at the buttons. Even more so because what you want to achieve is to stagger an opponent which is done with drowning them in magic as quickly as possible, which then allows to do a heap more damage with your normal attacks. This staggering only lasts for a short while so you have to hurry those normal attacks as well.

    Even in relation to the battles most choices have been taken away. It takes a while before you get to choose whom to put in your teams. Up till then your teams are a given based on the story. You do not have much control over their upgrades. All upgrading follows a predefined path. You just add them when you got the experience points. Classes, called roles, are a given as well and only lateron you can assign all classes, which is a useless option as your character only excel in a few.. Trying to farm enemies is useless as you won't progress further until you reached a certain stage in the story.

    With each switch to another group, forced upon by the story, you have to reconfigure your battle tactics, even if you get control over the same group of characters. And the storyline switches a lot and even changes the teams. At one time I got a team of two characters for a handful of fights(most fights taking around a minute) then the story switched to another group, and then yet another again after a few fights. Each sets of fights separated by several cut scenes running for up to five minutes each sometimes.

    The biggest flaw in the narrative is the lack of focus. The story has six main characters each with different backgrounds and their own demons to fight and their skeletons in the closet. But those are just the playable ones. Next them there are various others who cannot be played but are also given time.
    Add to this that the story is told in bits and pieces.And with a world that is totally new, which is also revealed in bit and pieces, a lot of information is released piecemeal. After a while the tendency to just skip a tale and get on with the game is almost overwhelming.

    At this point I actually have become so disinterested in the story that I am almost on the point of stopping with the game. But somehow it keeps me hoping that there will be something more just around the corner. And it seems to cultivate that feeling by offering new things at various times This is almost only related to combat, and by now I seriously doubt that the game will anything else than a wholly linear button smashing experience.

    Nice.. but in the end boring as well.    … Expand
  3. ethan614
    Mar 17, 2017
    2
    I don't hate this game. I just find it very boring. It made me feel sleepy every time I played it. It's a beautiful game, no doubt. Those characters are pretty but not to my liking. The music is ok. The story is so so and the dialogue is dumb. Especially, I think the combat system is quite boring. I remember when this game was out on PS3 I was very looking forward to its PC version. NowI don't hate this game. I just find it very boring. It made me feel sleepy every time I played it. It's a beautiful game, no doubt. Those characters are pretty but not to my liking. The music is ok. The story is so so and the dialogue is dumb. Especially, I think the combat system is quite boring. I remember when this game was out on PS3 I was very looking forward to its PC version. Now after I have played so many excellent RPGs such as The Witcher 3 and Skyrim, I just feel that Final Fantasy XIII is not an interesting game.… Expand
  4. duckhost
    Jul 10, 2017
    4
    If you wan't to play this game, don't play on PC the optimization is garbage, the game run on a 20fps basis that the only way for you to revert is to plug a wired controller. I love FF XIII, it was my first Final Fantasy but do not play it on PC.
  5. minix2poo
    May 30, 2016
    6
    The game is way to linear, and repetitive in fighting same enemies again and again. The battle system is almost like watching automated fights all the way long. It also takes some time to understand whats going on in the story.

    I think unless you are not a hardcore fan of the FF series, there is no need to play it, since there are enough better JRPGs out there. Besides of that, I    The game is way to linear, and repetitive in fighting same enemies again and again. The battle system is almost like watching automated fights all the way long. It also takes some time to understand whats going on in the story.

    I think unless you are not a hardcore fan of the FF series, there is no need to play it, since there are enough better JRPGs out there.

    Besides of that, I also had some issues with my Xbox One and PS4 Controllers on the PC.    … Expand
  6. Novam4a1
    Dec 17, 2016
    5
    I'll start by saying that I love the world and combat mechanics. Absolutely hate the never ending quest lines (why are we still making games with these tedious quests...). Just to confirm I am not one of the kiddies that say "oh, it's so pretty, blah blah blah" I like story, but unfortunetly FF15 absolutely did NOT deliver on this! This story is so damn confusing I just never knowI'll start by saying that I love the world and combat mechanics. Absolutely hate the never ending quest lines (why are we still making games with these tedious quests...). Just to confirm I am not one of the kiddies that say "oh, it's so pretty, blah blah blah" I like story, but unfortunetly FF15 absolutely did NOT deliver on this! This story is so damn confusing I just never know what's going on! I am just really disappointed with it. It seems like they only focused on making the game pretty and make combat fun but the story sucks! How can you have such cool looking characters and not elaborate on them whatsoever (unlike basically every other FF game). That should be a GIVEN to the story line, it's freaking free to elaborate on the characters! A complicated story like FF15 wouldn't be so complicated if they explained things more often or built more foundation on what the hell is happening. I'm just getting pissed off writing this. I was looking so forward to this game for FF to make a come back but it's joined the "mindless, quest doing, pretty graphics, action packed dumb game" genre that the younger generation goes for. What a waste...… Expand
  7. RetroMatero
    May 21, 2019
    0
    Pensar que Ready At Dawn era quien solamente hacía películas de 70 dólares...
    Square/Enix sacó una trilogía de películas a 220 dólares :)
  8. TitaniumDragon
    Jul 24, 2015
    0
    This game is extremely long and extremely boring. A two hour long tutorial starts things off badly, but the game just never really takes off. There's just nothing here - no good plot, no memorable characters, no interesting world. IT is just dullsville.

    The only thing that the game really has going for it is the graphics, but even they aren't that impressive, especially not by modern    This game is extremely long and extremely boring. A two hour long tutorial starts things off badly, but the game just never really takes off. There's just nothing here - no good plot, no memorable characters, no interesting world. IT is just dullsville.

    The only thing that the game really has going for it is the graphics, but even they aren't that impressive, especially not by modern standards.

    The linearity is annoying but... it isn't really the problem. But they didn't even try to disguise it, or any of the other weaknesses of the game.    … Expand
  9. muzmuz
    Oct 31, 2016
    3
    Final Fantasy XIII is filled with cringeworthy drama scenes, amateur acting, ridiculous setting and storyline topped with its attempted JRPG thrill that falls short of good. Add that 50 plus gigabyte worth of storage space, unstable performance, awkward camera movement, annoyingly repetitive gameplay, fights that never fail to feel like a household chore and you'll find yourself looking atFinal Fantasy XIII is filled with cringeworthy drama scenes, amateur acting, ridiculous setting and storyline topped with its attempted JRPG thrill that falls short of good. Add that 50 plus gigabyte worth of storage space, unstable performance, awkward camera movement, annoyingly repetitive gameplay, fights that never fail to feel like a household chore and you'll find yourself looking at such a big disappointment.… Expand
  10. gyigyo2
    Mar 30, 2015
    10
    This is the best ff13 game and all of kd is crying because there is no graphics settings, there is with the new official patch or use gedosato mod.
    bettlesystem is not that bad in ff13 is better than what we gonna get in ff15 ala gta devil may cry game..
    This game is pretty good with the gameplot, characters and voice acting and the music to..
    yeah its a linear game but what? i dont care.
  11. Watersson
    Feb 17, 2015
    8
    Port as port is tragic but game is very good. Just you know, graphic is nice, the same goes for gameplay. Story... Lots of people say that it's suck but I think that it is just too complicated. What more? Game has low hardware requirements but oh well, it takes over 60 GB on your hard disk. Hope you enjoy guys!
  12. Esteron
    Oct 13, 2014
    9
    Yes, may be you can't change any and graphic settings here but that fact doesn't change game is beautiful and intersting to play. I like these video clips and details of personages is very good, escpecially for 2009 year of release. If you want a best graphics then go to play in Ryse bacause FFXIII is not a game of 2014 year and we have 5 years old graphics here. I already have this gameYes, may be you can't change any and graphic settings here but that fact doesn't change game is beautiful and intersting to play. I like these video clips and details of personages is very good, escpecially for 2009 year of release. If you want a best graphics then go to play in Ryse bacause FFXIII is not a game of 2014 year and we have 5 years old graphics here. I already have this game on ps3 but I was glad to find it on pc! By the way you actually can change resolution try to use instructions on Steam.… Expand
  13. Jeek
    Dec 29, 2014
    8
    People here doesn't seem to understand that this is last-gen game, not current.
    This game was made in 2010.
    Square Enix made big mistake for not making this game on PC same time with Xbox 360 and PS3. They decided to make PC port 4 years later and you people really expect them to spend much money and time to make this to PC as current gen game, when they already have last gen? If you    People here doesn't seem to understand that this is last-gen game, not current.
    This game was made in 2010.
    Square Enix made big mistake for not making this game on PC same time with Xbox 360 and PS3.
    They decided to make PC port 4 years later and you people really expect them to spend much money and time to make this to PC as current gen game, when they already have last gen?

    If you do you really live in wonderland where everything must be perfect.
    This is game from 2010 and also is the price.

    This is now 8,70€ in Steam, so nobody should expect it to be current gen game.    … Expand
  14. Akauro
    Dec 1, 2016
    8
    Так, Final Fantasy 13, сюжет очень крутой 9/10. Геймплей 7/10, крутая боевая система . Фанаты серии ее не полюбили из-за начала.Они забросили ее в самом начале и не прошли до конца.
    Игра весьма коридорная и линейная,но после 7 главы линейность пропадает.
    Саундтрек 7/10. Игре ставлю 8/10. Спасибо за внимание.    Так, Final Fantasy 13, сюжет очень крутой 9/10. Геймплей 7/10, крутая боевая система . Фанаты серии ее не полюбили из-за начала.Они забросили ее в самом начале и не прошли до конца.
    Игра весьма коридорная и линейная,но после 7 главы линейность пропадает.
    Саундтрек 7/10.
    Игре ставлю 8/10. Спасибо за внимание.
  15. Contact13
    Oct 12, 2014
    10
    Ignore the many negative scores. This is an excellent game that you just have to use a mod to get it to be 1080p and at the $15 price tag people need to chill the flip out. It's ridiculous to give a game a 1 or a 0 because it starts out in 720 and you have to patch to 1080.
  16. Kulkuri
    Oct 12, 2014
    6
    FFXIII is ok game that tries to break certain traditional JRPG gameplay conventions but fails miserably. Reasons for that are so obvious that it makes you wonder if the game developers playtested the game at all before releasing it. As a person who had never played FFXIII or read reviews of it before it was released at Steam I was surprised to see how low the series has fallen.

    I'll try    FFXIII is ok game that tries to break certain traditional JRPG gameplay conventions but fails miserably. Reasons for that are so obvious that it makes you wonder if the game developers playtested the game at all before releasing it. As a person who had never played FFXIII or read reviews of it before it was released at Steam I was surprised to see how low the series has fallen.

    I'll try to keep this review short and I won't go into specifics of why most of the role-playing aspects of the game are flawed beyond any measure. FFXIII isn't an RPG game (although that's pretty subjective thing). The reason I say that is because the core design of the RPG elements is a broken mess. There are also broken features that should have been removed from the game before the release (such as the inventory management which is useless in a game such as this one). There also are no towns or any kind of hubs in this game (they were apparently redeemed useless feature and removed from the game).

    The director of FFXIII probably took drugs while doing this game because the camera always follows events in a such a way (esp. in action scenes) that player cannot track the scene and understand what's happening. And that's a bad thing because most of the time spent with the game is spent watching lengthy pre-rendered cutscenes filled with action player never gets to experience during the actual gameplay.

    The game is one lengthy tutorial of various things. FFXIII will keep constantly introducing player new stuff. The game also heavily underestimates intelligence of its own audience. When I broke five hour mark the game was still introducing new gameplay stuff to me in forms of new battle mechanics. Soon after it added simple level up system that's nothing more than glorified "use points to buy character development" but it's presented as a really complicated semi-linear 3D tree of things that makes it seem more complicated than what it in reality is.

    The level designers were obviously on drugs since everything is a linear path forward (well, mostly). But they're one of the better looking pipes ever. The writing of the game is horrible and the characters are mostly horrible personalities that player has trouble in relating to. Lightning especially. She's not this "mysterious older sister" who wants to protect her little sister. Character development portion of the game is just fail. I don't want to analyse it deeply here. Let me just say that I'm willing to bet that Lightning is the reason why FFXIII-2 and LR:FFXIII failed. You cannot build a game trilogy that uses such a personality lacking character as its keystone.

    The best things about the FFXIII are the visual design of the game and the sounds. Visual design is just marvellous although it lacks some central point where you'd aim your interest at. It's full of small details and things that make it really beautiful but it makes the big picture really difficult to see. Soundscape is interesting and well designed. Most of the music is nothing special but there's nothing particularly bad about it.

    However the Windows-PC port kind of ruins some of these aspects. It's based on Xbox 360 version which apparently had audio and visual issues. Things such as shadows are being drawn wrong or are missing entirely. Hair of the characters looks awful providing stark contrast to the cutscenes. Or some sounds being lower quality (to make it fit into DVD format Xbox 360 uses) than in PS3 version. All of those issues are present in Windows-PC version not to mention that the port introduces few issues on its own.

    Unlike what Square-Enix wrote about the game, it is not optimised for PCs. Usually PC games support multiple resolutions, FFXIII supports only one. That resolution being 720p. That's probably the worst issue with the port. Another issue is that keyboard and mouse cannot be fully binded to keys of your own choosing outside few limited keys. I didn't have issues with the size of the game. There are 25GBs of prerendered videos with the game. And since the game comes with the Japanese audio that size is doubled.

    English voice acting in FFXIII was better than usually in these games but the Japanese voice acting is so much better that I ended up playing with the Japanese audio and English subtitles. It felt more natural.

    Overall the FFXIII for Steam is fairly standard port of Xbox 360 game. It has all the standard faults and then some. But it's fully playable game that works and you will not encounter many bugs. It's a decently good port. I'm giving it neutral 6/10 because of the game itself and not because of the port. Overall I wouldn't probably recommend this unless player is keen Final Fantasy fan or interested in new Final Fantasy games. Average player probably doesn't have what it takes to sit through this game. This just isn't very good game and can be boring at times. However it's entertaining most of the time.    … Expand
  17. Kain666
    Oct 12, 2014
    9
    Final Fantasy XIII is an amazing game if u use the GeDoSaTo Tool. I loved the Mods and the Kristarium
    Techs to Build up the Characters. The Graphics are also stunning and the fighting system plays as well.
    So finally check this game out it´s a great peace of a cake.
  18. ThE_MarD
    Oct 20, 2014
    10
    Heyyo, I rate this game 6 / 10 but since people are rating it 0/10 even though it's NOT that bad? I'll do the opposite to be fair. With performance fixes and screen resolution? I'd bump this up to 8/10.

    The game's got A LOT of story... A LOT. It's quite compressed by how linear it is so unlike an open world game? You don't have a lot of time to sort through the information in between.    Heyyo, I rate this game 6 / 10 but since people are rating it 0/10 even though it's NOT that bad? I'll do the opposite to be fair. With performance fixes and screen resolution? I'd bump this up to 8/10.

    The game's got A LOT of story... A LOT. It's quite compressed by how linear it is so unlike an open world game? You don't have a lot of time to sort through the information in between. It does make this game less of a grind-fest compared to previous Final Fantasy games and I enjoy this change.

    The combat is quite a lot more basic compared to previous games... but also? There's no menu-pause in combat unlike other games in the genre AND you queue up multiple moves instead of just one at a time. I do quite enjoy the combat in this game and with the paragdim shifts? It does have strategy.. more-so than the odd and broken combat in "The Last Remnant". So overal? It's a fun jRPG to play as long as you know that it's a linear game for the first 15 hours. After that? You get an open world once you get to the planet surface.

    Now... let's talk about the game engine. It uses Crystal Tools which Square Enix used previously on PC with Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn and Dragon Quest X... sadly? It looks more like they ported the console version of Crystal Tools 1.0 instead of just porting the game to v1.1 or whatever version FF XIV ARR uses... so it's got some bad performance issues especially on older PCs. It's almost unplayable which is crazy when you think when FF XIII was released on PS3 and Xbox 360? That was 2009. It makes no sense to me why this game even runs bad on my rig... using GeDoSaTo to disable the HUD in combat? 60 fps... the HUD is what hampers the framerate lol.    … Expand
  19. Sofatayra
    Oct 14, 2014
    10
    I was a little desapointed by the careless job squre enix did converting this console exclusive game to PC , while I was shocked that I will be playing the game on 720p
    However and with the fix of GedoSaTo , the game turned to be amazing , even though the plug in need more fixes for lags and strutting .
    The cinematics are amazing as usual , the game play is progressive and turns more    I was a little desapointed by the careless job squre enix did converting this console exclusive game to PC , while I was shocked that I will be playing the game on 720p
    However and with the fix of GedoSaTo , the game turned to be amazing , even though the plug in need more fixes for lags and strutting .
    The cinematics are amazing as usual , the game play is progressive and turns more strategic latter to diversify the game mechanics , I was actually impressed that you could go more than 6h of gameplay and still see tutorials .The graphics are very ok , remember this is a Final Fantasy Game and should be compared to its predecessors not with Skyrim as most PC gamers mistakenly do .
    Music is loyal to the FF charm, and the story make sense most of the time and the voice acting is amazing on either Jap or Eng.
    Also you will be playing a good amount of time ( Generally 65h as per howlongtobeat website)
    Overall , this game is very acceptable and merits a verdict note of 8.5 including Gedosato if not then
    a 6
    I really want to give a chance to this type of games , so that we can see more console exclusive for the long forgotten PC gamers like us , and since a lot of people rated it 4 because of the port , then I will give it a 10 for a fair total average    … Expand
  20. MixedFeelings
    Oct 14, 2014
    7
    I am glad they actually took the time to port this console exclusive over to PC. I did not mind it being 720p because the game looks great even on my 2560x1440 monitor. That doesn't mean devs should neglect putting more options for a PC port.

    If you do not have a controller plugged into a USB port on your computer your game will stutter making it nearly unplayable. I had all the    I am glad they actually took the time to port this console exclusive over to PC. I did not mind it being 720p because the game looks great even on my 2560x1440 monitor. That doesn't mean devs should neglect putting more options for a PC port.

    If you do not have a controller plugged into a USB port on your computer your game will stutter making it nearly unplayable. I had all the settings in the nVidia control panel turned up for this game and it fixes the unstable fps. Still have the frame rate drop in between battles but not as bad.

    Aside from the bad port, the game was great. I had a lot of fun playing it on my PC. Wish future ports will be better.    … Expand
  21. Octavio87
    Feb 16, 2015
    0
    Worst game I have ever played and I started playing on my Gameboy about 20 years ago.

    Annoying characters (especially that emo-crybaby and that wannabe- Paris Hilton- Barbie), horrible and hectical fighting system (why the **** the game ends, when Lightning is defeated, even though there are other characters who could easily revive her?), mega linear maps (basically just one direction-    Worst game I have ever played and I started playing on my Gameboy about 20 years ago.

    Annoying characters (especially that emo-crybaby and that wannabe- Paris Hilton- Barbie), horrible and hectical fighting system (why the **** the game ends, when Lightning is defeated, even though there are other characters who could easily revive her?), mega linear maps (basically just one direction- alleyways), annoying music, that repeats itself and repeats itself until your brain goes numb. Besides that the actual game gets interupted with cutscenes every 10 minutes or so, so there is no fluent gameplay at all.

    I even enjoyed playing Ride to Hell: Retribution more than this, that game made you laugh at least, while FFXIII just makes me angry as hell. So **** this game, **** it to oblivion.    … Expand
  22. shandu22
    Jun 27, 2015
    9
    addictive and keeps me busy on the bog. Great fan service and mithril earning is fair, not needed to buy gems yet and got most content done and been lucky with loot. Enjoying
  23. 22446688Bb
    Aug 5, 2019
    10
    Trio 13 is excellent in all respects, offering an excellent story with very famous characters. Turns out to be like the old parts.
  24. SolarConker
    Jan 21, 2019
    9
    I don't care what anyone says about this game, this game has an amazing story, characters and such a deep lore that most people get lost into and just say the game is full of plot holes all these reasons and much more is why this isn't just my favourite Final Fantasy but also my favourite game of all time but on pc it needs a little more optimising
  25. ArcanaThe4th
    May 26, 2019
    8
    I am not blind to the defects that this game has. It has some pretty unfortunate controls, it is pretty clunky with exposition (it throws undefined terms at you and expect you to read the whole instructions about it on the menu) and none of the characters make a good first impression, aside from taking too long to get to the good part, or, for that matter, let you play the game properly.I am not blind to the defects that this game has. It has some pretty unfortunate controls, it is pretty clunky with exposition (it throws undefined terms at you and expect you to read the whole instructions about it on the menu) and none of the characters make a good first impression, aside from taking too long to get to the good part, or, for that matter, let you play the game properly. It sets a pretty low bar in its first three hours, but if you look past that, you'll find a pretty good game at the end of the tunnel: the characters are far deeper deconstructions of archetypes than what might first seem, the world is interesting and beautiful, and the fights become more strategic than you would believe it. Only play this game if you have the patience to do so, but if you do, I believe you will be rewarded for it.… Expand
  26. HRChan
    Aug 1, 2020
    8
    This game might be a deviate to the normal turn based combat of the game but the essence is still there, this has great music, characters and gameplay. I guess some people just has different tastes. Anyways this will always be one of my favorite FF games of all time! This is another family based story, with not only Lightning and Serah, Hope and Bartholomew, Serah and Snow, Sazh and Dajh,This game might be a deviate to the normal turn based combat of the game but the essence is still there, this has great music, characters and gameplay. I guess some people just has different tastes. Anyways this will always be one of my favorite FF games of all time! This is another family based story, with not only Lightning and Serah, Hope and Bartholomew, Serah and Snow, Sazh and Dajh, Fang and Vanille, but all of them! So before you judge the game based by the hate it gets, try the game for yourself!… Expand
  27. delaware80
    Mar 23, 2021
    9
    FF 13-1 is one of the best FF games. Everything I like about FF is in there: fantastic graphics, amazing music, heartbreaking story and great battles. There are a lot of cut scenes - therefore the game gets a movie touch, and it is a linear FF. The community is discussing a lot open RPG vs linear system, but both "systems" can work: e.g. FF 15 with picking only the side quests you want andFF 13-1 is one of the best FF games. Everything I like about FF is in there: fantastic graphics, amazing music, heartbreaking story and great battles. There are a lot of cut scenes - therefore the game gets a movie touch, and it is a linear FF. The community is discussing a lot open RPG vs linear system, but both "systems" can work: e.g. FF 15 with picking only the side quests you want and FF13-1 very linear and enough thrilling moments that you do not need open RPG side quests. :-)… Expand
  28. LastResource
    Jan 14, 2023
    10
    worth it and glad to play this game again. so much memories and nostalgia within this thirteenth game in the series.
  29. 0hope
    Oct 11, 2014
    4
    Like every one else who was wondering if this will be another bad console port, had their fears come true.
    This is truly bad console port and not just 'bad' its THE BAD console port. So to explain that a bit:
    frame rate is locked at 60fps (or so they say) and its true game is running at 60fps half the time but cut scenes run at 30 fps coz of game engine limitations and what not, which    Like every one else who was wondering if this will be another bad console port, had their fears come true.
    This is truly bad console port and not just 'bad' its THE BAD console port. So to explain that a bit:
    frame rate is locked at 60fps (or so they say) and its true game is running at 60fps half the time but cut scenes run at 30 fps coz of game engine limitations and what not, which would be fine imo if the game didn't have micro stutter whole time and sudden fps drops everywhere. For something that is more like interactive movie this can be extremely annoying.
    Resolution is locked at 1280x720 and you can't change it without mods.
    Over all cut scene quality is low it feels more like xbox port with lower res cut scenes.

    How ever game comes with Japanese dub as well as English one, so that's only thing that sets it apart from console version at cost of rather high waste of space (50 gb installation)

    Over all its the same game with all those nice additions stated above.

    For those who never played it:
    Game was rather poorly received at start because it felt more like interactive movie. Basically you are in dungeon 80% of time and rather linear one as there is hardly anything to do on side beside following the straight line at which end there is cut scene and boss fight sometimes only cut scene and you repeat that for 80% of the game till it finally opens up.
    But even then there is only few boring 'quests' to do which are locked behind grind wall as things that you have to kill for those are too 'hard' for your level at least.
    Or you can ignore all that and just finish the game as final missions ain't that hard.

    And that's whole problem, game is too easy, combat at first seems interesting but soon enough you will spam one button whole fight where game decided what skills are best used for situation.
    That why i said it feels more like interactive movie then game. You don't even need game pad to play it as one button is enough...

    Over all i would give it even lower score how ever they at least put decent price for this blasphemy - only 13 euro on steam (13 was truly unlucky number for this franchise)

    So if you don't own the console but really want to play it, might be worth to buy it mostly thanks to durante
    and his gedosato tool as it fixes lot of game issues.
    My advice be sure to download that if you decided for some reason to buy this.    … Expand
  30. d33pak001
    Oct 13, 2014
    10
    People here are complaining for the smallest of reasons. This game is a visual treat with some of the best music in games. It is an AAA RPG which is linear for most of the game. Remember when we were blaming Square Enix for launching it only on the consoles? Well its here finally on PC now so stop complaining and start getting immersed in the world of FFXIII
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. RPG Fan
    Dec 23, 2014
    68
    The mystery of what FFXIII holds is far more pleasing than the experience itself.
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  2. Ragequit.gr
    Nov 30, 2014
    89
    With a story that would be considered nothing special, FFXII shines with its fast-paced combat and challenging difficulty. Although it introduces many changes to the series, it provides a good amount of things to explore providing hours of fun.
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  3. PC Gamer
    Oct 30, 2014
    48
    Parts of Final Fantasy XIII are worth the absurd amount of time it takes to properly open up, but this port is a big letdown.
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